kevin williams wrote: > digg linked to an article related to the apple port of ZFS > (http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/print_1125?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhss). > I dont have a mac but was interested in ZFS. > > The article says that ZFS eliminates the need for a RAID card and is > faster because the striping is running on the main cpu rather than an old > chipset on a card. My question is, is this true? Can I install > opensolaris with zfs and stripe and mirror a bunch of sata disc for a > home NAS server? I sure would like to do that but the cost of the good > raid cards has put me off; maybe this is the solution.
Hi Kevin, Personally, I'd argue that if you've got a RAID card or array to use, you should take advantage of it _in conjunction_ with using ZFS. If you don't have a RAID card or array, then still use ZFS so you get the speed and data integrity benefits. There are several threads on the zfs-discuss mailing list which talk about the configs that people have used to setup home NAS servers. The searchable pages are at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=80 You might want to have a look at these two wikidocs: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Configuration_Guide cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
